Trait‐based approaches are widespread throughout ecological research as they offer great
potential to achieve a general understanding of a wide range of ecological and evolutionary …

Taxonomists are arguably the most active annotators of the natural world, collecting and
publishing millions of phenotype data annually through descriptions of new taxa. By …

Gall wasps (Cynipidae) represent the most spectacular radiation of gall-inducing insects. In
addition to true gall formers, gall wasps also include phytophagous inquilines, which live …

The most widely recognized hymenopterans–ants, bees, and wasps or hornets–have long
been part of art, ritual, and folklore worldwide. Both extant and extinct Hymenoptera were …

Scarabaeine dung beetles are the dominant dung feeding group of insects and are widely
used as model organisms in conservation, ecology and developmental biology. Due to the …

The fossil record allows a unique glimpse into the evolutionary history of organisms living on
Earth today. We discovered a specimen of the stem group ant† Gerontoformica gracilis …

Despite a large and multifaceted effort to understand the vast landscape of phenotypic data,
their current form inhibits productive data analysis. The lack of a community-wide …

The time is ripe for a comprehensive mission to explore and document Earth's species. This
calls for a campaign to educate and inspire the next generation of professional and citizen …

The generic classification of the ant subfamily Dorylinae is revised, with the aim of facilitating
identification of easily-diagnosable monophyletic genera. The new classification is based on …

Abstract The Plant Ontology (PO; http://www. plantontology. org/) is a publicly available,
collaborative effort to develop and maintain a controlled, structured vocabulary ('ontology') of …